Senior Partner Engineer (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; office Monday to Thursday with flexible Fridays, plus travel within Europe up to 40% of the time. Regular late-afternoon calls with San Jose and occasional work outside normal hours may be required for major launches and live events.

Company

hirify.global operates a TV streaming platform connecting consumers, content publishers, advertisers, broadcasters, streaming services, and hardware partners.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery for a portfolio of European broadcaster, streaming-service, and pay-TV partners.
• Scope integrations, run technical onboarding, clear launch blockers, and sign off technical readiness for new market launches.
• Represent European technical requirements within hirify.global engineering, including broadcast, accessibility, privacy, content-protection, and delivery needs.
• Support hirify.global Pay integrations, including multi-currency pricing, VAT, invoicing, PSD2/SCA, and local payment methods.
• Diagnose and resolve partner application defects, crashes, memory pressure, launch-time and playback regressions, streaming issues, DRM problems, and hirify.global Search integration issues across hirify.global TV and operator devices.
• Drive certification and partner escalations from initial report to root cause and resolution, including adoption and measurement of AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience debugging and optimizing applications on constrained or embedded platforms such as smart TVs, set-top boxes, mobile devices, or game consoles.
• Hands-on AI-assisted coding experience, including regular use of AI coding tools such as Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or OpenCode in production development workflows.
• Strong practical debugging skills using logs, traces, and telemetry to identify root causes.
• Working knowledge of adaptive streaming with DASH and/or HLS, including manifest, DRM, and fMP4 playback failure modes.
• Experience in a partner-, customer-, or developer-facing engineering role.
• Experience querying large telemetry datasets with SQL and quantifying impact before proposing fixes.
• Proficiency in at least one of C, C++, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with willingness to become fluent in BrightScript.
• Based in or able to work from the London office Monday to Thursday, with availability to travel within Europe up to 40% of the time.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with European public-service or commercial broadcasters, European subscription streaming services, or pay-TV operators.
• Familiarity with DVB, HbbTV, the European Accessibility Act, AVMSD, GDPR for viewing data, or PSD2/SCA payment flows.
• Experience launching a product or platform in a new country or region, including technical, regulatory, and partner-onboarding work.
• Professional working proficiency in German, French, or Spanish.
• Experience with smart TV platforms, embedded Linux, or media pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive, fast-paced environment focused on problem-solving, practical innovation, and delivering solutions to customers.
• Office-based work Monday through Thursday with generally flexible remote Fridays, subject to role and office requirements.
• Global mental-health and financial-wellness support.
• Local benefits may include healthcare, life, accident, disability, commuter, retirement, and pension options.
• Time off is supported in accordance with local leave policies and personal needs.